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Friday, March 15, 2019

Featured in the New Straits Times - 16 March 2019

https://www.nst.com.my/lifestyle/pulse/2019/03/469718/wife-former-diplomat-looks-horror-inspire-children

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tutudutta: Tutu Dutta is the collector and raconteur of tales. She was born in Churachandpur in India. As a toddler, she left the green hills and farmlands for Calcutta and from there to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which was a quiet little town then. She has also lived in Kuching, Sarawak as a child. As an undergraduate at Universiti Putra Malaysia, she won a scholarship from Japan Airlines to spend a summer in Japan, which was a life-changing experience. As a post-graduate student at the University of Malaya, she also had a chance to study in France for a year. She is an International Nomad who has lived in Singapore (where her daughter was born), Lagos, New York, Havana and Zagreb. While in New York, her passion for folklore and children's literature inspired her to research and write some of the stories in "Twelve Treasures of the East", which she co-authored with Lucy Bedoya-Maire, illustrated by James Konatich. She has since had eight more books published, five of which are collections of Asian folktales, including, Timeless Tales of Malaysia, in 2009 and Nights of the Dark Moon in 2017. Phoenix Song, her first picture book (illustrated by Martina Peluso) was published in 2015.

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